What is Emacs ?

Emacs is the extensible,
customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. This
Editor is used to do a lot of things, from IRC to reading mails
and news, along with "basic" editing, advanced macro, remote
control, multimedia player, and so on..

This webpage is about EMMS, an Emacs "package" that you use
to extend Emacs features to multimedia.

EMMS: Screenshots.

EMMS's appearance is customizable, and can range from a simple
"now playing" notice when a new song starts, to a collection
browser and interactive playlist.

forcer's minimalist EMMS:

The collection browser and playlist, with cover display, running on an xft-enabled emacs: (click for a bigger
version)

Another screenshot of the browser, in "live" usage: (click for a bigger version)

Another "screenshot" from forcer's, that should be opened
in a dedicated window, to
feel all the power of EMMS.

William Xu's setup, I quote him : "emms playlist with
last-played time, play-count, artist, title (tree-like for the
same album) and various other info, and lyrics on the mode
line. Fields in a row are (left to right): last played time,
play-count, artist, (tracknumber, title), album, year,
time. Basically, my configuration is focused on making full use of
emms in a single playlist buffer."
His configuration for this setup can be found here